Principal Product Manager

How you’ll demonstrate Ownership

Are you a visionary Principal Product Manager eager to define the vision, build, and lead the development of intuitive user experiences and robust backend systems that transform industrial operations? At Cognite, we're not just building software; we're pioneering the future of industrial data with our award-winning Cognite Data Fusion® platform, recognized as the 2022 Technology Innovation Leader for Global Digital Industrial Platforms.

Our Product team is at the core of developing Cognite Data Fusion® into a robust and scalable platform for solving critical industrial data problems. This work is central to transforming asset-intensive industries – making them safer, more sustainable, and more profitable. Cognite Data Fusion® makes operational data available at scale, adding immense value through advanced data processing. This empowers industries to make truly data-driven decisions. Our platform leverages many different technologies, each chosen for its ability to solve specific challenges effectively.

To build the best possible product, we believe in autonomous teams where product managers, developers, and designers work closely together. Our teams are focused on building the next-generation industrial data platform and applications across diverse industries like Oil & Gas, Manufacturing, and Power & Utility. This includes enabling all types of workflows, from advanced analytics to assisting in critical decision-making. We're a strong mix of product managers, engineers, and designers, united by a deep commitment to user experience and creating products users genuinely want to use.

Our work environment is exciting, dynamic, and intense. You'll collaborate with top-tier domain and industry experts and business leaders. We support one another, ask incisive questions, and give constructive feedback. Our goal is to leverage our diverse strengths and backgrounds to build innovative products, think outside the ordinary, and nurture a truly great culture.

The Impact you bring to Cognite

As a Principal Product Manager, you'll be a key player in setting product direction, building the product, and owning its success across Cognite’s industrial customers. You'll have the opportunity to:

• Define product strategy and roadmap for the future of Cognite Data Fusion, focused on improved usability, accelerated time to value, and the integration of new AI technologies.

• Drive the development and launch of innovative SaaS products that solve complex data and business problems at scale.

• Shape how GenAI and Agentic AI capabilities can be embedded into products and workflows to create differentiated user experiences and measurable customer value.

• Collaborate in a fast-paced environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts.

• Work closely with our skilled users to understand their needs and build products that help them succeed.

• Partner with GTM and customer teams to enable them on offerings and ensure successful product launches.

We're seeking a proactive product leader who is passionate about user value, user satisfaction, AI innovation, and shaping robust, end-to-end solutions for complex data challenges.

• You love making users happy and are committed to creating products they truly want to use.

• You have a user-centric mindset: A genuine passion for understanding user needs and designing intuitive, easy-to-use solutions for complex technical problems.

• You have 10+ years of product management experience, with a strong track record of building and launching successful SaaS products, ideally in areas involving big data, data platforms, analytics, or other technically complex products.

• You have strong experience across SaaS and AI/ML products. Experience in industrial OT/IT or industrial software is a strong bonus, but is not mandatory.

• You have experience building and launching products where GenAI and/or Agentic AI is a core building block, rather than simply an add-on capability.

• You are deeply interested in the potential of Agentic AI and emerging AI technologies, and actively explore and use them in your own daily workflows. You understand how agentic technologies can transform workflows, create new product experiences, and deliver meaningful customer value.

• You have a track record of successful product launches involving AI/ML and preferably GenAI or Agentic AI technologies.

• You have experience managing feature delivery, product strategy, prioritization, and tradeoffs for a complex product area.

• You excel at communicating with different types of stakeholders, ranging from customer senior executives to technical engineers and data scientists.

• You articulate clear and well-structured product requirement documentation that sets the direction for engineering and design.

• You're comfortable learning about new developments within the AI space and actively use AI tools to improve your own productivity and ways of working.

• You have experience building products within big data or data-intensive environments, with an understanding of how large-scale data is collected, processed, stored, analyzed, and utilized.

• You're accustomed to working in an English-speaking environment.

• You have experience mentoring junior colleagues and leading complex product development projects across global teams.

• You demonstrate strong leadership potential. While initially an individual contributor, you should have the ambition and capability to grow into a leadership role over time, potentially building and leading a team of Product Managers in India.

• Experience in industrial OT/IT, energy, manufacturing, oil & gas, or other asset-intensive industries is a bonus.